Even though they are usually only at a company for a short period, interns are still expected to abide by the same professional standards as any other employee.
From interns who embarrassed their boss to interns who just embarrassed themselves, there have been many entry-level workers who were quickly shown the door.
We’ve rounded up some of the best — or worst? — examples of bad interns for entertainment and education. Enjoy.
The intern who fabricated sources for her articles
Liane Membis had a lot of things going for her as a recent Yale grad who had scored an internship with The Wall Street Journal, but made headlines in the summer of 2012 for all the wrong reasons.
After her editors discovered she had been fabricating sources and quotes for her stories, Membis was fired from her internship.
The intern who allegedly wrote about startups in exchange for MacBooks
Daniel Brusilovsky, a 17-year-old TechCrunch intern, was fired from the website in 2010 after it was alleged that he had asked a startup for a MacBook Air in exchange for writing a post about the company.
The company later confirmed that Brusilovsky also received at least one other computer from a company he wrote about.
The intern who threw glitter at Mitt Romney
University of Colorado Denver student Peter Smith was fired from his 2012 internship with Colorado Senate Democrats after he attempted to “glitter bomb” Mitt Romney by throwing glitter at the then-presidential hopeful.
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